The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 104 103 103
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 18 33 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.978% 1.526% 0.861%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.319% 1.993% 1.241%
Number of salaries quoted 17 30 14
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £28,500 £31,800
10% offered a salary of more than £53,700 £45,000 £41,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,251 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +0.62%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1365 1656 1209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.18% 76.60% 69.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1095 1467 1040
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Performance Testing
North West

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Performance Testing Salary Trend

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire Performance Testing Salary Histogram

Performance Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Knutsford - 11 £42,500 -
Crewe - 2 £35,000 -
Chester - 1 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £37,500 -
Performance Testing
North West

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Performance Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Performance Testing.

1 15 (53.57%) Finance
2 11 (39.29%) LoadRunner
3 10 (35.71%) HP
3 10 (35.71%) UNIX
3 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (35.71%) Banking
4 8 (28.57%) Test Management
5 7 (25.00%) Web Services
6 6 (21.43%) SOAP
6 6 (21.43%) Mainframe
6 6 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (21.43%) REST
7 5 (17.86%) ICEfaces
7 5 (17.86%) Java EE
7 5 (17.86%) JIRA
7 5 (17.86%) Life Science
7 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (17.86%) Spring
7 5 (17.86%) JSF
7 5 (17.86%) Oracle 10g
7 5 (17.86%) Workflow
7 5 (17.86%) LIMS
7 5 (17.86%) WebLogic
7 5 (17.86%) Java
7 5 (17.86%) Oracle
8 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
8 4 (14.29%) JUnit
8 4 (14.29%) .NET
8 4 (14.29%) SQL
8 4 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Performance Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (25.00%) Web Services
2 6 (21.43%) SOAP
2 6 (21.43%) REST
3 5 (17.86%) ICEfaces
3 5 (17.86%) Java EE
3 5 (17.86%) Spring
3 5 (17.86%) JSF
4 4 (14.29%) .NET
4 4 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 4 (14.29%) JPA
5 2 (7.143%) ADO.NET
5 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.143%) WCF
5 2 (7.143%) Ajax
5 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (3.571%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) LoadRunner
2 5 (17.86%) JIRA
3 4 (14.29%) JUnit
3 4 (14.29%) Eclipse
3 4 (14.29%) Maven
3 4 (14.29%) Mockito
3 4 (14.29%) Git (software)
4 3 (10.71%) Selenium
5 2 (7.143%) WinRunner
5 2 (7.143%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.571%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.571%) Bugzilla
General
1 15 (53.57%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 6 (21.43%) Tester
3 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Performance Tester
4 4 (14.29%) Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Teradata Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) Architect
6 2 (7.143%) Performance Manager
6 2 (7.143%) .NET Architect
6 2 (7.143%) Performance Test Manager
6 2 (7.143%) Web Tester
6 2 (7.143%) Agile Test Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.571%) Performance Test Leader
7 1 (3.571%) Web Test Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Mainframe
2 5 (17.86%) Life Science
2 5 (17.86%) LIMS
3 4 (14.29%) Online Banking
4 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (28.57%) Test Management
3 6 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (17.86%) Workflow
5 4 (14.29%) Migration
5 4 (14.29%) MVC
5 4 (14.29%) Web Development
5 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.71%) Load Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Test Strategy
6 3 (10.71%) Automated Testing
6 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.71%) SOA
7 2 (7.143%) Inmon Methodology
7 2 (7.143%) Software Testing
7 2 (7.143%) MVVM
8 1 (3.571%) Web Testing
8 1 (3.571%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (7.143%) VB.NET
3 2 (7.143%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.143%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) ISEB
2 2 (7.143%) Degree
3 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) QA
2 1 (3.571%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) HP
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 4 (14.29%) Teradata
4 2 (7.143%) Microsoft